Italy On This Day

The master of the fresco technique became court painter to Napoleon Appiani fell into poverty at the end of  his life despite his notable ca...

Satirist avenged bad treatment though his poetry The poet and satirist Giuseppe Parini was  identified with the Age of Enlightenment ...

Political refugee knighted by Queen Victoria Panizzi was a friend of the British Lord Chancellor, Henry Broughton Sir Anthony Pani...

Revolutionary who expressed his feelings in verse Ugo Foscolo: this portrait by Francois-Xavier Fabre is in the Biblioteca Nazionale  ...